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Figure G12-4
Continued.
Design Example 2
The facility in question is a seafood restaurant, as sketched in
Figure G12-6
.
The building itself is a heated pole barn. It has an unventilated hip roof with a
metal surface and R-value of 20 °F h ft
2
/Btu. All four sections of the roof have
the same 2-on-12 slope. The restaurant has a seating capacity of 450 people
and is located at a shoreline in an area with
p
g
10 lb/ft
2
. The structure is
bordered on one side by a large parking lot and on the other by a beach.
=
Balanced Load
From the problem statement, the structure is located in Terrain Category D
(seashore) and is fully exposed, owing to the absence of nearby obstructions.
Hence, the exposure factor,
C
e
, is 0.8 from Table 7-2. The restaurant is
